“I am having huge problems with plug-ins. I duly activated all the plug-ins you recommended and ever since I have been in trouble! It is now 7 days and Hostgator could not fix it for me. Their techie dept uninstalled and then reinstalled the plug-ins and can’t say which one has messed up my coding!!!

Could you please have a look for me as I don’t know where else to turn to as Hostgator techies couldn’t fix it and I am definitely not a techie so am stuck. Don’t want to post more articles till I know the coding is sorted.

Thanks.”

I went into the member’s dashboard and deactivated all the plugins. Then reactivated them one-by-one until the problem occurred again.

I found the problem plugin. The member had installed the wrong plugin.

“Not to worry”, I thought. It only took me a few minutes of effort.

I replied back to the member and said, “all fixed”.

The members reply:

“Thanks sooooooo much Andrew.”

I was happy.

That’s all it took. Fifthteen seconds of her time – just to say thank you and I felt appreciated.

How do you feel when you get NO THANKS? Please share your views in the comments below.

33 Responses to A Thank You Goes A Long Way

It’s amazing how such a little thing can mean so much. It’s always nice when I get grateful emails from people I’ve helped either for free or payment. It doesn’t matter, everyone like a thank you now and then! .-= Joel @ Blog Solutions´s last blog ..Headway 17 Theme Sneak Preview =-.

It doesn’t take much to just say thank you, but you are correct when you say it goes a long way. What better way to become friends and network with other bloggers than helping each other out. I would be absolutely enraged if I helped someone (more than a couple of minutes) and they didn’t bother to thank me. .-= Aaron´s last blog ..Free Blogs =-.

Small things like a Thanks You does mean a lot because it makes one feel like at least they have done something to help. But If there is no thank you…then even if one has helped some one he does not feel satisfactory happiness since he is gonna miss that small thing called “Thank You” .-= Shiva@Web Magazine´s last blog ..Rockable Press Rockstar WordPress Designer Revised Discount Coupon Code =-.

You went to a lot of effort Andrew for this blogger. I’m certain it took more than a “few minutes.” I certainly would say thank you, and probably ask for a PayPal address to buy ya a cup of coffee or something! 🙂 .-= Colleen@Kennewick Real Estate´s last blog ..Annual Prosser Fly-In and Show at Prosser Airport =-.

I know what you mean. I get people asking me all the time how to edit their wordpress themes and I go out of my way to help them out providing them with the code they need or guidance on how to edit their stylesheet – even on themes I did not develop. And maybe 1 out of 3 people actually thank me.

People should definitely be thanking you. Even if your tip was horrible or you made their problem worse. They should at least reply with some kind of acknowledgment, as you took some of your own precious time to try and help them out.

Everybody needs to be reminded now and then to mind their manners. I think we really do, all appreciate what a good and generous person are! 🙂 .-= Blog Angel a.k.a. Joella´s last blog ..10 Great Blog Articles You Shouldn’t Miss =-.

A thanks does go a long way. I practice saying Thank You over and over every morning until I feel grateful. This practice causes me to say Thank You 100 or more times a day to people, even when they didn’t do anything that great!

You always do great stuff for me and share great stuff with me. So, I thank you. More love to you! .-= GerlaineTalk´s last blog ..The Proper Candidate =-.

of course, I’d feel a little confused, whether he/she took my advice as good or it didn’t help at all. I meet a lot of people like that online, sure I didn’t do the favor just to be thanked, we all do things to build something, well as for me I try to build good online relationships through interactions. well, I guess they’re not up to what I’m building, though sometimes it just feels bad to be unappreciated even with the small efforts you are doing just to help them out. But in some cases, it’s just good to just let go, even they try to seek for more advice in the future, I’d definitely answer them back. The important thing is that we don’t forget to thank people (as helpers seeking for others’ help as well) 🙂

How true! Even if you know you’ve helped a person, without a thank you I sometimes question why I bothered.

The last month I’ve been working long days helping my son-in-law out to get the files ready for his new computer system. It didn’t seem to matter how helpful I was, I never heard a peep. Then finally I got a phone call saying thank you. What a huge difference that made.

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